Re: Error when starting NetBSD

[Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost>]

What about:

Sep  2 08:00:19 gandalf ntpd[821]: error resolving pool
2.netbsd.pool.ntp.org: Temporary failure in name resolution (2)


I have a file called '/etc/resolv.conf' -- is it still needed?

On Mon, Sep 2, 2024 at 7:51 AM Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> No
>
>
> I have 'ntpd=YES'
>
> Do I need both; or just one?
>
> On Sun, Sep 1, 2024 at 10:57 PM John McCue <jmclists%jmcunx.com@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 01, 2024 at 08:19:02AM +0000, Todd Gruhn wrote:
> > >Below is my  /var/log/messages.
> > >Why do I get:
> > >     Sep  1 08:02:20 gandalf ntpd[817]: error resolving pool
> > >      2.netbsd.pool.ntp.org: Temporary failure in name resolution (2)
> > >
> > >Can it be fixed?
> >
> > Do you have "ntpdate=YES" in /etc/rc.conf ?
> >
> > If so maybe remove it ?  I read somewhere ntpdate(8) is no
> > longer needed.
> >
> > FWIW, I removed it a while ago and my system time and ntp(8)
> > seems to work OK.  When I removed it the messages stopped.
> >
> > But in reality you can ignore those messages.
> >
> > Regards
> >